Adaptive rate control for Wyner-Ziv video coding

Abstract

In Wyner-Ziv video coding architectures, the available bit budget to each GOP is shared between key frames and Wyner-Ziv frames. In this work, we first propose a model to express the relationship between quantization step size of key and WZ frames based on their motion activity. Then we apply this model to propose an adaptive algorithm adjusting the quantization step size of key and WZ frames to achieve and maintain a target bit rate. We evaluate the rate distortion performance of the proposed method and compare to a common method in the literature.